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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>HISPANID</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="hispanicism"> Hispanicism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Spanish idiom or expression. </DL> <A NAME="hispanicist"> Hispanicist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a student of the Spanish language and culture. </DL> <A NAME="hispanicize"> Hispanicize, transitive verb, -cized, -cizing.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make Spanish; give a Spanish character or accent to. </DL> <A NAME="hispanidad"> hispanidad, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Spanish.) a movement in Latin America advocating the spiritual and, sometimes, political unity of Spanish-speaking lands. </DL> <A NAME="hispanism"> Hispanism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a movement affirming the cultural unity of Spanish-speaking peoples. <DD> 2. pride in Spanish culture. <DD> 3. =Hispanicism. </DL> <A NAME="hispanist"> Hispanist, noun. =Hispanicist.</DL> <A NAME="hispano"> Hispano, noun, pl. -nos.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD> 1. a person living in the southwestern United States who is of Spanish or Mexican descent. <DD> 2. a Spanish-speaking person living in the United States. Ex. The combined newspapers are using El Diario's slogan of "Champion of the Puerto Ricans and Hispanos" (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="hispano"> Hispano-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) Spanish. Ex. Hispano-American = Spanish-American. </DL> <A NAME="hispid"> hispid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) rough with stiff hairs, bristles, or spines. </DL> <A NAME="hispidity"> hispidity, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> hispid quality or state. </DL> <A NAME="hiss"> hiss, verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.i. 1. to make a sound like ss: Ex. Air or steam rushing out of a small opening hisses. Geese and snakes hiss. <DD> 2. to show disapproval or scorn by hissing. Ex. Thou art disgraced and hissed at (Jeremy Taylor). <DD>v.t. 1. to show disapproval or scorn for by hissing. Ex. The audience cheered the hero and hissed the villain. <DD> 2. to force or drive by hissing. Ex. They hissed the actors off the stage. <DD> 3. to say or show by hissing. <DD>noun 1. a sound like ss: Ex. the hiss of escaping steam. (SYN) sibilance. <DD> 2. a hissing sound as an expression of disapproval or scorn. Ex. Hisses were heard from many who disliked what the speaker was saying. noun hisser. </DL> <A NAME="hissable"> hissable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> deserving to be hissed; detestable. Ex. [He] is marvelously hissable as a swarthy outlaw costumed in traditional black (Time). </DL> <A NAME="hisself"> hisself, pronoun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Substandard or Dialect.) himself. Ex. She wasn't but sixteen; he wasn't but nineteen hisself (Truman Capote). </DL> <A NAME="hissing"> hissing, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun something to be hissed; a scornful thing. Ex. Their reputations had ... been blasted and their names made a hissing (London Times). <DD>adj. of or like a hiss. Ex. a hissing sound. adv. hissingly. </DL> <A NAME="hist"> hist, interjection, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>interj. be still! listen!. Ex. The guide said: "Hist! You can hear the deer coming." (SYN) hush. <DD>v.t. (Archaic.) to urge on by saying "hist". Ex. And the mute silence hist along (Milton). </DL> <A NAME="hist"> hist-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) the form of histo- before vowels, as in histoid. </DL> <A NAME="hist"> hist.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. histology. <DD> 2a. historian. <DD> b. history. </DL> <A NAME="histaminase"> histaminase, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an enzyme that can make a histamine inactive. </DL> <A NAME="histamine"> histamine, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an amine released by the body in allergic reactions that lowers the blood pressure, used to treat or diagnose various allergies, Meniere's disease, and other disorders. </DL> <A NAME="histaminic"> histaminic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or induced by histamine. Ex. a histaminic headache. </DL> <A NAME="histidine"> histidine, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a basic amino acid present in many simple proteins and yielded by hydrolysis. It is important in diet, and sometimes used to treat ulcers and arteriosclerosis. </DL> <A NAME="histing"> histing, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the raising of a player's hand from the ground when shooting marbles. </DL> <A NAME="histiocyte"> histiocyte, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a highly phagocytic cell of the connective tissue. </DL> <A NAME="histiocytic"> histiocytic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> composed of histiocytes. Ex. a histiocytic tumor. </DL> <A NAME="histo"> histo-,<DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) tissue. Ex. Histochemistry = the chemistry of (organic) tissues. <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, hist- before vowels. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="histoblast"> histoblast, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cell that is forming tissue; primary element or unit of an organic tissue. </DL> <A NAME="histochemical"> histochemical, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with histochemistry. adv. histo chemically. </DL> <A NAME="histochemistry"> histochemistry, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the chemistry of organic tissues. </DL> <A NAME="histoclastic"> histoclastic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) destroying or breaking down tissue. </DL> <A NAME="histocompatibility"> histocompatibility, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition in which grafted or transplanted tissue is accepted by surrounding tissue; compatibility of graft tissue. Ex. Organ transplantation has brought urgency to the problem of the genetics of histocompatibility (Victor A. McKusick). </DL> <A NAME="histocompatible"> histocompatible, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> exhibiting histocompatibility. Ex. histocompatible guinea pigs. </DL> <A NAME="histogen"> histogen, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the areas of a plant in which tissues become differentiated. </DL> <A NAME="histogenesis"> histogenesis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the development of tissues from embryonic germ layers. </DL> <A NAME="histogenetic"> histogenetic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with histogenesis. Ex. histogenetic studies of flowers. </DL> <A NAME="histogenous"> histogenous, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> formed by the tissues. Ex. the histogenous cells which originate locally as the result of local tissue proliferation (Practitioner). </DL> <A NAME="histogeny"> histogeny, noun. =histogenesis.</DL> <A NAME="histogram"> histogram, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Statistics.) a graph of a frequency distribution in which vertical rectangles or columns are constructed with the width of each rectangle being a class interval and the height a distance corresponding to the frequency in that class interval. </DL> <A NAME="histography"> histography, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the description of organic tissues. </DL> <A NAME="histoid"> histoid, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like tissue, especially normal or connective tissue. Ex. a histoid tumor. </DL> <A NAME="histoincompatibility"> histoincompatibility, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> incompatibility of graft tissue; graft rejection. Ex. These animals have virtually no immunological reactivity, so we felt confident that our test would not be complicated in any important way by histoincompatibility reactions between cells and hosts (New Scientist and Science Journal). </DL> <A NAME="histoincompatible"> histoincompatible, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> exhibiting histoincompatibility. </DL> <A NAME="histological"> histological, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with histology. adv. histologically. </DL> <A NAME="histology"> histology, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the branch of biology that deals with the structure, especially the microscopic structure, of the tissues of animals and plants; the science of organic tissues. <DD> (Abbr:) hist. <DD> 1. the tissue structure of an animal or plant. noun histologist. </DL> <A NAME="histolysis"> histolysis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the disintegration or dissolution of organic tissue. </DL> <A NAME="histolytic"> histolytic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with histolysis. </DL> <A NAME="histon"> histon, noun. =histone.</DL> <A NAME="histone"> histone, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biochemistry.) any one of a class of proteins, such as globin, that are basic in reaction and are soluble in water. They often occur in combination with nucleic acid. </DL> <A NAME="histopathologic"> histopathologic, adjective. =histopathological.</DL> <A NAME="histopathological"> histopathological, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with diseased tissue. Ex. histopathological changes. </DL> <A NAME="histopathology"> histopathology, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of diseased tissues. </DL> <A NAME="histophysiology"> histophysiology, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the physiology of the tissues. </DL> <A NAME="histoplasmin"> histoplasmin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sterile culture of the fungus causing histoplasmosis, used as a skin test for the presence of the active fungus. </DL> <A NAME="histoplasmosis"> histoplasmosis, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a serious fungous disease that attacks especially the lungs, throat, spleen, liver, and lymph nodes. It is most common in the eastern and central United States. </DL> <A NAME="historian"> historian, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a person who writes about history. <DD> 2. an expert in history. <DD> (Abbr:) hist. </DL> <A NAME="historic"> historic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. famous or important in history. Ex. Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill are historic spots. The entry of the free people of Germany into the Atlantic association of nations is an event of historic significance (New York Times). (SYN) celebrated, noted, renowned. <DD> 2. =historical. </DL> <A HREF="historie.dic">NEXT</A>